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Object Name:

Snuff Bottle with Stopper

Place Made:

China

Accession Number:

81.6.34

Dimensions:

Overall H: 7.5 cm, W: 3.6 cm, Th: 1.5 cm; Rim Diam: 1.5 cm

Location:

Not on Display

Date:

1800-1911

Credit Line:

Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer

Web Description:

黄套绿玻璃龟蛇纹鼻烟壶

More Info

Department:

Early Modern; Modern

Provenance:

Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source

1981-12-22

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Description

Primary Description:

Snuff Bottle with Stopper. (a) Opaque light brown glass with overlay of dark green, almost black, glass; blown, cased, cameo-carved. Flattened cylindrical shape, rounding shoulder, straight neck, level rim, oval base ring of green glass, decoration on each face of pre-formed tortoise and serpent in green overlay, tails spreading onto sides. (b) New cork stopper, long bone spoon of unusually slender stem, black disc, translucent dark green glass cap.

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Snuff Bottles of China at Steuben Glass

Venue(s)

Steuben Glass, Inc. 1981-09-09 through 1981-10-03

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 24 (1982) illustrated, p. 99, #37; BIB# AI9252

Glass Snuff Bottles from China from the Mayer Collection (1980) #30; BIB# 30686